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Thursday, September 11, 2008

It was a funny party, started 1:30am, after I finished my shift at the DØ at midnight. It was a cold night, fog was circulating in the air, blown from water ponds inside the Tevatron accelerator ring, car windows were covered with moisture. A security car stopped me when I was entering the road inside the ring, just checking that I have a valid Fermi ID. After 3km drive, I parked at the High Rise building, people already gathering in the Wilson hall with eyes fixed at the large LCD screens at the CMS experiment remote control room transmitting the LHC start-up from Cern. Cookies, juice, coffee, physicists as well as QuarkNet and other students, people all excited, expectant, high-spirited, hand clapping, talking and enjoying. I went to sleep at 5am, but the experience was worth it!